Amber Fletcher
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology & Social Studies
University of Regina
Canada
Biography
Dr. Amber Fletcher teaches courses in the Sociology of Gender, Sociology of the Family, and Qualitative Research Methods. Her interdisciplinary research combines the fields of sociology, gender studies, and public policy studies to examine the everyday lived effects of macro-level changes in policy and climate. Amber is Principal Investigator on a 4-year SSHRC-funded project entitled “Social Dimensions of Climate Hazards: Adapting to Wildfire and Flood in Saskatchewan's Farm, Forestry, and First Nations Communities”. She is also co-investigator on a national SSHRC-funded project on policy engagement strategies for gender issues in Canada.
Research Interest
Dr. Amber Fletcher research interests: Sociology of gender; gender and climate change; gender and public policy (particularly agricultural and trade policy); gender and water; qualitative research methodology and methods; participatory action research; critical realism; feminist theories; sociology of the family; leadership studies.
